A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be… — T. E. Lawrence Ashamed Copy Share Image
Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers. — T. E. Lawrence Arabia Copy Share Image
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final… — T. E. Lawrence Best shot Copy Share Image
A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their… — T. E. Lawrence Arab Copy Share Image
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from… — T. E. Lawrence Desert Copy Share Image
We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old… — T. E. Lawrence Men Copy Share Image
The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known… — T. E. Lawrence Communism Copy Share Image
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley… — T. E. Lawrence Aggression Copy Share Image
“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it… — T. E. Lawrence War Copy Share Image
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He… — T. E. Lawrence Body Copy Share Image
The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your… — T. E. Lawrence Advantage Copy Share Image
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results.… — T. E. Lawrence Artistic Copy Share Image
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master.… — T. E. Lawrence Aliens Copy Share Image
A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its… — T. E. Lawrence Animal Copy Share Image
When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born:… — T. E. Lawrence Angry Copy Share Image
